She told the Manchester Evening News: “After childbirth it’s very hard to hold on and when you need to go, you need to go.

“I was fortunate to have the money in my pocket for the turnstile as I usually use my card, but when I put it in I realised I couldn’t get me and the pram through.

“That’s when I went to the office to ask for the key. I explained the situation but he just said I couldn’t have the key and would just have to go in and leave the pram outside and take my daughter in with me.

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“How is that an answer? What am I supposed to do with her when I’m on the toilet?”

Shannon, who had been visiting her daughter’s grandma in south Manchester, added: “They said I could use one in an office room, but leave my pram and daughter with them and I didn’t feel comfortable with that either. I’m not going to leave her in a room with three men I don’t know.”

Shannon, a single mum, ended up calling the Northern Rail complaints line while she was still at the station on Wednesday afternoon.

She said: “I was fuming by because I’d already started to wet myself so I asked ‘how do I complain?’.

“They gave me a leaflet and I rang to complain. I was told it would be dealt with, but I wouldn’t be told the outcome as they’d just deal with it internally.

“That’s not dealing with a complaint.”

Shannon had to endure an uncomfortable journey home and said she wanted to make people aware of the incident to prevent it happening to someone else.